Friday, November 2nd, 2012
One of the great things about being a customer of a SaaS delivered monitoring service like LogicMonitor is that they can get best practices in monitoring of all sorts of technologies without having to have an expert in that technology on staff.
A recent example when LogicMonitor updated some of the ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
Our digs here at LogicMonitor are cozy. Being adjacent to sales, I get to hear our sales engineers work with new customers, and it’s not uncommon that a new customer gets a rude awakening when they first install LogicMonitor. Immediately, LogicMonitor starts showing warnings and alerts. ”Can this be right ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2012
While most may not see Microsoft as a ‘disruptive innovator’ anymore, they seem to be claiming exactly that role in the enterprise hypervisor space, just as they did in gaming with the Xbox. As noted in "VMware, the bell tolls for thee, and Microsoft is ringing it", Hyper-V appears to ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2012
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Well it actually turns out it was completely full. When MSPmentor picked up the story about LogicMonitor going to the San Diego VMUG to talk virtualization monitoring, they chose a photo of a surfer riding a giant wave to accompany the article. We thought it was in reference to San ...
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
Amongst its many monitoring methods, LogicMonitor supports IPMI. Many people aren't aware of IPMI, and don't think it's necessary. And while I'm certainly an advocate of avoiding unnecessary complexity in a data center, sometimes it is good to wear both a belt and suspenders.
A real life example from one of our own ...
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
We recently had a customer come into trial looking around for a new monitoring solution. This is always good for us. We love the takeaway. (Customers defecting from other monitoring systems to us.) As in most takeaway situations this customer had specific needs. Now there are the obvious ones in ...
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
I was invited to talk to an MSP peer group the other week, and during the presentation, one of the group members who was a LogicMonitor customer described a way they use LogicMonitor to solve a previously hard-to-solve VMWare operational issue.
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